Hacker News: bkitano19

Barrington's Theorem for Mortals

bkitano19 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:20:17 +0000

Article URL: https://briankitano.com/circuit-complexity/expressivity-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685626

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bkitano19 in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

bkitano19 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:13:17 +0000

notable omission of deepgram models in comparisons?

New comment by bkitano19 in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

bkitano19 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:47:37 +0000

+1 to running. If you run consistently, you'll learn to believe in your body as something that naturally improves if you train it well, and that belief will cross over to your mind and heart.

Mad: Watch agents do research live

bkitano19 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:15:59 +0000

Article URL: https://briankitano.com/mad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039746

Points: 2

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On Culmination and Not yet Turning Thirty

bkitano19 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:55:23 +0000

Article URL: https://briankitano.com/essays/on-culmination/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941710

Points: 1

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New comment by bkitano19 in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

bkitano19 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:08:55 +0000

You can use voice prompting; it's supported on ElevenLabs and Hume.

Making Sense of Memory and Attention

bkitano19 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://memory.briankitano.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556463

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by bkitano19 in "Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs"

bkitano19 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:38:06 +0000

Awesome post!

New comment by bkitano19 in "Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock"

bkitano19 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:41:31 +0000

you might like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem

New comment by bkitano19 in "Chatterbox TTS"

bkitano19 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:10:57 +0000

https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

New comment by bkitano19 in "Pre-Trained Large Language Models Use Fourier Features for Addition (2024)"

bkitano19 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:22:42 +0000

Related work:

Interpreting Modular Addition in MLPs https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cbDEjnRheYn38Dpc5/interpreti...

Paper Replication Walkthrough: Reverse-Engineering Modular Addition https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability/modula...

Free hosted Postgres, as simple as mkdir

bkitano19 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:33:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mkdb.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260885

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bkitano19 in "Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model"

bkitano19 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:04:17 +0000

hume.ai specializes in expressive prosody for TTS (disclaimer - I work here)

Silon.ai – real-time global public figure recognition

bkitano19 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:40:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.silon.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41553087

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by bkitano19 in "Cerebras launches inference for Llama 3.1; benchmarked at 1846 tokens/s on 8B"

bkitano19 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:41:06 +0000

Time to first token is as important to know for many use cases, rarely are people reporting it

New comment by bkitano19 in "Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP"

bkitano19 — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:37:17 +0000

this is nuts

New comment by bkitano19 in "Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage"

bkitano19 — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:04:01 +0000

+1, had the fortune to work with him at a previous startup and meetup in person. Our convo very much broadened my perspective on engineering as a career and a craft, always excited to see what he's working on. Good luck Simon!

New comment by bkitano19 in "Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective"

bkitano19 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:05:42 +0000

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/in-context-learning-an...

there is a lot of evidence to suggest that they are performing induction

New comment by bkitano19 in "Show HN: Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button"

bkitano19 — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:41:12 +0000

Had this exact problem (Heroku Postgres to RDS) at my old co. Data migration went as bad as it possibly could (dropped indices, foreign keys, everything but the data itself). This would have saved us months of pain.

New comment by bkitano19 in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

bkitano19 — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 10:49:45 +0000

https://hootdoogs.com/ - "find food between you guys"